Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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COAL AND IRON

Internationale Monatsschrift für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Technik(Leipzig), 1910, January (10th year, No. 4).Hans Arlt, Dr., mining assessor in Munich.  “Coal and ton and Their Significance in the Present World War.”  Statistics of coal and ironreservesin the belligerent countries.(Iron ore resources of the world)(Coal    ”   ” ”  ” )

(Geological congresses, Stockholm 1910 and Toronto1913).

The important invention, by Thomas (1878), of the basic or Thomas method of obtaining iron did away with the Bessemer method.

The new method gave Germany a big lead, for itfreesthe ore fromphosphorus, and German ore isrich in phosphorus(N.B.).

Thatis how Germany beat Great Britain.||N.B.

The chemical industry produces coal tar (1 million tons in 1912 in Germany).